When the brain forms memories of past experiences, it typically encodes various information, including what happened, where ...

A new Northwestern Medicine study challenges traditional ideas about how dopamine influences movement, according to findings published in Science Advances. The study, led by D. James Surmeier, Ph.D., ...

Tiny, year-old human brain organoids that mimic the brain of a newborn are providing new clues to potential treatments for a ...

Postdoctoral researcher Nancy Ahuja at the University of Oxford studies extracellular vesicle communication between neurons ...

The team found mechanisms by which APOE4 changed pericytes and caused cholesterol to accumulate in astrocytes to promote neurodegeneration.

Year-old human brain organoids show hyperreactive astrocytes, not neurons, directly drive seizures in tuberous sclerosis complex.

What if cells that form scars after a spinal cord injury could become part of the repair process? Researchers have developed ...

Resting brain stem cells hardly differ from normal astrocytes, which support the nerve cells in the brain. How can almost identical cells perform such different functions? The key lies in the ...

The element sodium plays a key role in nervous system function. An international research team headed by the Institute of Neurobiology at Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf (HHU) has now conducted a ...

Researchers have discovered that astrocytes, the most abundant cells in the brain, play a direct role in the regulation of adult neuronal circuits involved in learning and memory. Researchers at ...